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Jack Nicholson
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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic…
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John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
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2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
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2025
Films to Die For
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2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
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2025
John Candy: I Like Me
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
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2024
Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location
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2024
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
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2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
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2021
Untold: Deal with the Devil
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
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2020
Kubrick by Kubrick
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2020
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
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2020
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
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2018
Basketball: A Love Story
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- 2017
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2017
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
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2017
Mansfield 66/67
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2014
I Am Divine
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2012
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
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2012
Close Up
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2011
Corman's World
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2010
How Do You Know
Movie Charles
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2010
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
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- 2010
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2010
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
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2010
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
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2010
Stardust
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2010
I'm Still Here
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2010
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
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- 2008
- 2008
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2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
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2008
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
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2007
The Bucket List
Movie Edward Periman Cole
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2007
Making of Chinatown
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- 2007
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2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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- 2007
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2007
Into the Wild
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